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[MILITARY] PEGASUS BRIDGE. 6 JUIN 1944 [French Language]
by Stephen E. Ambrose | Arlette Gondree Pritchett [Translator]
Dives-sur-Mer, Normandie: Edition France Horizon, 1987. First French Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. 8vo.; in the publisher's burgundy cloth, with a white "Pegasus" stamped to the upper board and titling in white to the spine, with dusjtacket; this copy is signed on the title page by the translator, Arlette Gondree Pritchett and dated... Read More
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LE DECAMERON DE MAISTRE IEAN BOCACE FLORENTIN. TRADVICT D'ITALIEN EN FRANCOIS, PAR M. ANTOINE LE Maçon, CONSEILLER DU ROY, & TRESORIER DE L'EXTRAORDINAIRE DE SES GUERRES
by Giovanni Boccaccio | Antoine le Maçon (Translator)
A Paris: Chez Iacqves Langlois, au mont sainct Hylaire, 1629. Early Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. An early edition of Antoine le Maçon's French translation of Boccaccio's Decameron. A classic of Renaissance literature, containing 100 tales by numerous narrators, set in the time of Florentine's affliction with the Black Death. Title page vignette; engraved headpieces and initials.... Read More
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SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF A SOLDIER IN ACTIVE SERVICE. I. AUSTRIAN CAMPAIGN IN PIEDMONT, 1849; II. NOTICE OF THE DEFENCE OF TEMESWAR. III. THE CAMP OF THE BAN
by [Friedrich Wilhelm Hacklander] | [Francis Egerton Ellesmere] [Translator]
London: John Murray, 1850. First English Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. Signed. 8vo.; in publisher's green embossed cloth, with titling at the spine in gilt; xvi; 245 pages; with folding map at the rear of the book; the gutter between the first blank leaf and the title page is cracked but holding well. A previous owner has... Read More
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] KASCHUBISCHES WEIHNACHTSLIED [CHRISTMAS SONG]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/852/395/1569395852.0.m.0.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] KASCHUBISCHES WEIHNACHTSLIED [CHRISTMAS SONG]
by Werner Bergengruen | Ursula Arndt [Artist]; Gertrude C. Shwebell (Translator)
Zurich: Die Arche, 1979. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Square 8vo; in the publisher’s coarse linen weave cloth binding, with pictorial onlay to the upper board; 26 unnumbered pages with illustrations on the rectos, text on the facing page; with the English translation of the text in a pocket in the back cover; this is number 9 of 40... Read More
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![LES EPISTRES DE SENEQUE [SENEQVE], TRADVITES, PAR MRE FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE, GENTIL-HOMME ORDINAIRE DE LA CHAMBRE DU ROY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/897/204/1188204897.0.m.jpg)
LES EPISTRES DE SENEQUE [SENEQVE], TRADVITES, PAR MRE FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE, GENTIL-HOMME ORDINAIRE DE LA CHAMBRE DU ROY
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Francois de Malherbe (Translator)
Paris: Chez Anthoine de Sommaville, 1648. Early Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Francois de Malherbe's translation into French of the Letters of Seneca. First published in 1637, this being an enlarged reprint. Portrait frontispiece; printer's device on the title page; engraved initials and headpieces. Faint dampstaining to a section of the fore edge of the text block.... Read More
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THE EPISTLES OF PHALARIS TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK TO WHICH ARE ADDED, SOME SELECT EPISTLES OF THE MOST EMINENT GREEK WRITERS
by Phalaris | Thomas Francklin (Translator)
London: R. Francklin, 1749. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. Letters attributed to that nastiest of tyrants, Phalaris. "R. Bentley proved that they were spurious and dated from perhaps the 2nd cent. A.D. There is an echo of the controvery in Swift's The Battle of the Books." [The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature]. ... Read More
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L'OFFRANDE LYRIQUE (GITANJALI)
by Rabindranath Tagore | Andre Gide (Translator)
[France]: Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1913. First French Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. Signed. First French Edition of Andre Gide's translation of Gitanjali, a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore, limited to 500 numbered copies. Signed by Gide on the half title. Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for this collection, which the Nobel committee... Read More
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A GRAMMAR OF THE ICELANDIC OR OLD NORSE TONGUE
by Erasmus Rask | George Webbe Dasent (Translator)
London: Williams & Northgate, 1843. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Issued the same year as the Pickering edition, this translation of Erasmus Rask's Grammar is from the Swedish. It was published in Stockholm in 1818, and is an important work in Icelandic studies. "Rask's 'Guide to the Icelandic' or old Nordic Language' was the first of an... Read More
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![[ANCIENT WORLD] [JEWS] [WOMEN SHOPKEEPERS] THE FAMOUS AND MEMORABLE WORKS OF JOSEPHUS, A MAN OF MUCH HONOUR AND LEARNING AMONG THE JEWS. FAITHFULLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE LATIN AND FRENCH BY THO. LODGE, DOCTOR IN PHYSICK, WHEREUNTO ARE NEWLY ADDED THE REFERENCES OF THE SCRIPTURES THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY AND AFTERWARDS COLLECTED INTO A TABLE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/296/610/1422610296.0.m.jpg)
[ANCIENT WORLD] [JEWS] [WOMEN SHOPKEEPERS] THE FAMOUS AND MEMORABLE WORKS OF JOSEPHUS, A MAN OF MUCH HONOUR AND LEARNING AMONG THE JEWS. FAITHFULLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE LATIN AND FRENCH BY THO. LODGE, DOCTOR IN PHYSICK, WHEREUNTO ARE NEWLY ADDED THE REFERENCES OF THE SCRIPTURES THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY AND AFTERWARDS COLLECTED INTO A TABLE
by Flavius Josephus | Tho. Lodge [Translator]
London: Printed by J. L. for Anne Hood, and are to be sold at her shop in Dunstan's Churchyard in Fleet-Street, 1656. Quarto; in a modern binding of tan half-calf over marbled boards with a morocco label.~~Seventeenth century edition of this history of the Jews by Josephus, translated by Thomas Lodge. Certainly of interest is that Part I --... Read More
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THE MAID OF ORLEANS, OR LA PUCELLE OF VOLTAIRE. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE; WITH NOTES, EXPLANATORY, CRITICAL, HISTORICAL, AND BIOGRAPHICAL. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I & II
by Voltaire | W. H. Ireland (Translator)
London: Printed for John Miller and W. Wright, 1822. Full Leather. Good binding. With 59 full page plates in Vol. I, 9 of which are duplicates on poorer paper, and 58 full page plates in Vol. II, 9 of which are duplicates; with 25 white Fine Paper engravings pasted down in Vol. I, and 25 in Vol. II;... Read More
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![[FINE BINDINGS] THE LIFE OF BENEVENUTO CELLINI WRITTEN BY HIMSELF](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/681/274/1599274681.0.m.0.jpg)
[FINE BINDINGS] THE LIFE OF BENEVENUTO CELLINI WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
by John Addington Symonds [Editor; Translator]
New York: Brentano's, 1906. Very Good binding. Two large octavo volumes; in crimson morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt to the edges, and with matching marbled endpapers; with raised bands and decorations and lettering in gilt in the compartments; there is a small amount of loss to the morocco at the crown of the spine of Volume... Read More
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[RELIGION] [SLIPCASE] THE HEBREW BIBLE. 3 VOLUMES
by Robert Alter [Translator]
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Three small quarto volumes; in the publisher’s cloth with dustjackets, housed in the slipcase as issued.~~Each of the three books is a First Edition printing; without prior ownership marks of any kind.~~. Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.
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UTTARATANTRA OR RATNAGOTRAVIBHAGA. THE SUBLIME SCIENCE OF THE GREAT VEHICLE TO SALVATION, BEING A MANUAL OF BUDDHIST MONISM. WITH A COMMENTARY BY ARYASANGA
by Arya Maitreya | Aryasanga | E. Obermiller [Translator]
Talent, Oregon: Canon Publications, 1984. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. A clean copy in the publisher's orange cloth binding, with titling in gold to the spine and to the upper cover. There are no marks of any kind in the book. Near Fine binding.
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PONS PER STYX
by Aleksander Borovsky (idea of album and introduction); Igor Adamatsky (translation)
St. Petersburg, Russia: The State Russian Museum, 1994. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. 12mo; in black paper boards; text written in Russian and English full of both black and white and full color photographic illustrations; in black cardboard slipcase; the slipcase has edge wear and a few tears; there is rubbing to the upper board with a... Read More
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[SPECIAL PRESS] HYMNS TO APHRODITE
by Valenti Angelo | John Edgar (Translator)
New York: Press of Valenti Angelo, 1949. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Small quarto; blue paper-covered boards backed in cream parchment with lettering in gilt to the spine; with two hand-colored illustrations in black with highlights picked out in gilt; with hand-painted initials in red and rubication in blue;[12] leaves; this is #9 of 150 numbered... Read More
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] A TRANSLATION OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO’S LIFE OF DANTE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/748/719/1569719748.0.m.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] A TRANSLATION OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO’S LIFE OF DANTE
by Giovanni Boccaccio | G. R. Carpenter [Translator]
New York: The Grolier Club | Printed at the Devinne PRess, 1900. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Small quarto; in decorative cream and orange vellum binding; 186 pages including the Index; with frontispiece portrait, a folding plate of Fiorenza; and a note on the portraits of Dante; housed in a bespoke blue paper-covered slipcase, with chemise, the chemise... Read More
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[SIGNED] [PHILOSOPHY] THE KING AND THE EDUCATION OF THE KING (DE REGE ET REGIS INSTITUTIONE)
by Juan de Mariana | George Albert Moore (Translator)
Chevy Chase: Country Dollar Press, 1948. Collector Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Large Octavo; in the publisher’s blue cloth with tiling on the upper board and spine in gold; 440 pages including the index; the edges and the spine of the jacket are toned; there is a catalogue note in pen on the copyright... Read More
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[RELIGION] MUSLIM SAINTS AND MYSTICS
by Farid al-Din Attar | A. J. Arberry (Translator)
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Good+ dust jacket. Octavo; in the publisher’s blue cloth binding; in an unclipped dust jacket; 287 pages; dust jacket is faded and has a few chips to the edges; a couple of small stains; the occasional pencil annotation in the margins. Near Fine binding / Good+... Read More
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PLUTARCHI CHAERONEI, DE VIRTVTE MORUM, INTERPRETE CAROLO VALGULIO BRIXIANO. | Peri tes ethikes aretes
by Plutarch | Carolus Valgulius (Translator)
Paris: Apud Guil. Morelium, in Graecis typographum Regium, 1555. Full Leather. Good binding. Plutarch's De Virtute Morum, translated by Carolo Valgulio, and published by Guillaume Morel, French printer to the King. Title page vignette. Text in Latin and Greek, with engraved initials and headpiece. Biographical slip for Morel tipped in the front endpaper. "PPRISIIS M. D. LVII." on... Read More
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[ART] TRADITIONAL JAPANESE CHESTS. A DEFINITIVE GUIDE
by Kazuko Koizumi | Gavin Frew [Translator]
Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2010. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Quarto; in red cloth, with titling in silver, and with dustjacket; 151 pages; with illustrations in color throughout.~~A fresh First Edition copy of this sumptuous book. Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.
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[RELIGION] [CATHOLIC] EL UNIVERSO ENIGMATICO
by [Louis Antoine de] Caraccioli | D. Francisco Mariono Nipho (Translator)
Madrid: Miguel Escribano, 1778. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 16mo,; in contemporary vellum with faded hand lettering to the spine; xvi, 235, followed by [13] pages of Index; There are no names or marks in the book. Defense of the Catholic Church against the deists and others. In Spanish~~There are a handful of copies to be found on... Read More
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LES OFFICES DE CICERON, TRADUITS EN FRANCOIS, SUR L'EDITION LATINE DE GRAEVIUS, AVEC DES NOTES, ET DES SOMMAIRES DES CHAPITRES; PAR M. DUBOIS, DE L'ACADEMIE FRANCOISE. TROISIEME EDITION, AVEC LE LATIN A COTE
by Cicero | Graevius (Editor) | Philippe DuBois (Translator)
Paris: Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1697. Third Edition. Full Leather. A third edition copy of a bilingual Cicero reader, Les Offices de Ciceron, translated from Graevius' Latin edition by Philippe DuBois. Text in Latin and French, in two columns. Printer's device on the title page; woodcut engraved headpieces; index at the rear. Collates complete; [28], 484, [38] pp. Worming... Read More
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![[PHILOSOPHY] THE PHILOSOPHY OF AVICENNA AND ITS INFLUENCE ON MEDIEVAL EUROPE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/159/282/1681282159.0.m.jpg)
[PHILOSOPHY] THE PHILOSOPHY OF AVICENNA AND ITS INFLUENCE ON MEDIEVAL EUROPE
by A. M. Goichon | M. S. Kahn [Translator]
Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo.; in the publisher’s faded grey cloth-covered boards, with a dustjacket which has minor chipping at the bottom edge; there are no ownership marks in the book. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.
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THE STAIR-WAY OF LIFE, DELINEATED IN TWELVE PICTURES. WITH DESCRIPTIVE VERSES
by Ferdinand Rothbart (Illustrator) | W. Th. Sehring | Charles T. Brooks (Translator)
Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 1860. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. W. Th. Sehring's The Stair-way of Life, Delineated in Twelve Pictures. Illustrated by Ferdinand Rothbart, and translated by Charles T. Brooks. With ten plates and an illustrated title page, engraved and hand colored; lacking plate 3: "Twenty Years - A Youth." The illustration on the engraved title page... Read More
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![[FEMINISM] [LITERATURE] THAT WHICH HAS NOT BEEN TOLD. [LO QUE NE SE HA DICHO]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/309/013/1385013309.0.m.jpg)
[FEMINISM] [LITERATURE] THAT WHICH HAS NOT BEEN TOLD. [LO QUE NE SE HA DICHO]
by Teresa Wilms Montt | Richard P. Butrick (Translator)
Shanghai, China: Chiu Yih Book Company, 1940. Second Edition, Limited. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Limited, Second Edition in English, of Teresa Wilms Montt's Lo Que ne se ha Dicho. Wilms Montt was a friend of many preeminent Latin authors of the early 20th century, being an anarcha-feminist and author herself, active in Chile, Argentina, and Spain. Her... Read More
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